On January 24, AGC, along with other transportation stakeholders, called on congressional leaders to enact a full-year fiscal year 2022 federal government funding bill that will finance all new and increased programs infrastructure investment accounts from the recently enacted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. In December, Congress passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through February 18. That extension of existing funding did not include appropriation of funds for many new programs in the November passed infrastructure bill.
Specifically, without a new, full-year appropriations bill, states and local governments and agencies will not be able to access the bill’s roughly 20 percent funding increase for highway formula programs and more than 30 percent increase for public transit formula programs, along with any newly created programs. AGC will continue pressing Congress to remedy this issue.